Our Tasks
The Digital Office, including Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), is the central unit that supports KIT in its digitalization efforts and advises and supports the management level in its responsibilities in this regard.
The Digital Office acts as an overarching mediator in terms of the management level’s responsibility. It is assigned to the Executive Board Department “Digitalization and Sustainability” and supports the Vice President Prof. Dr. Kora Kristof in her responsibility for the digitalization area of action in the KIT 2025 Strategy.
The Digital Office thus generally examines the possibilities and benefits of digitalization for KIT and drives them forward. The technical requirements and users’ needs are recorded and taken into account for the further development of KIT’s digital infrastructure.
Our Offerings
The Digital Office:
- advises and supports the Executive Board and the heads of divisions in shaping digitalization and information security issues.
- Together with the CIO, is responsible for the development and implementation of the digitalization strategy as part of the KIT 2025 Strategy.
- is responsible for creating structures (e.g. committees) for setting and coordinating digitalization topics and projects.
- provides and maintains an overview of digitalization at KIT and is the universal point of contact - in the sense of a pilot function - for digitalization topics at KIT.
- takes up user requirements, current developments and interests and brings them to the right place at KIT in a targeted manner.
- advises and supports in setting up and preparing digitization projects.
Talk to us: We can advise, support and network.
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Which topics are affected by digitalization at KIT?
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Information security should adequately protect an organization’s information. How does KIT safeguard the fundamental values of confidentiality, integrity and availability?
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Digitalization is part of the KIT 2025 Strategy as a strategic area of action. What goals and measures is KIT pursuing?
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How does KIT guarantee all stakeholder groups are involved in the processing of upcoming and future digitalization topics?
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07.08.2025 The digitization project "Digital Didactics" is launching an open exchange round, which will take place in an informal atmosphere on the first Tuesday of every month. The topic of the first meeting on 2.9.2025 will be the online course "Researching and writing with text-generating AI".
21.07.2025 KIT employees have developed their own chatbots for various areas of work in workshops as part of the "Innovation space for generative AI at KIT" project. The positive feedback is being incorporated into a further developed concept that sensibly combines centralized and decentralized solutions and secures them in the long term.
15.07.2025 Viktoria Fitterer (CSE) and Theresa Schlegel (FM) on the digitization project UP D1 "Teaching and learning locations for teachers and learners", in which a concept for the media technology renovation of centrally managed lecture halls and seminar rooms at KIT was developed.
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01.07.2025 KIT is the first German university to launch a server in the Mastodon social network. The instance social.kit.edu serves as a networking platform for the scientific communication of institutions and projects at KIT. The pilot project was initiated and implemented by the DO, the ISD and STS-Corporate Communications in coordination with Vice President Digitalization and Sustainability Kora Kristof. The SCC is responsible for operation and technical support.
KIT is thus taking a step towards digital sovereignty - and supporting the sustainability goals.
Mastodon profile of the DO
You can find further news about digitalization at KIT in our news list.